Top 10 best recovery books for men
Finding the best recovery books for men suitable for your needs isnt easy. With hundreds of choices can distract you. Knowing whats bad and whats good can be something of a minefield. In this article, weve done the hard work for you.
Best recovery books for men
1. Touchstones: A Book Of Daily Meditations For Men
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In the quest for sustained sobriety and self-development, we must look outside of ourselves to discover our inner truths. Whether we are facingdependency or parenthood, marriage or meditation, everyone needs a guide to embolden their coping skills and settle in to a better, more balanced life.Touchstones has strengthened millions of recoveries for more than thirty years. Offering suggestions for deepening integrity, spirituality, and intimacya recovering mans trinityit helps men transform addictive behaviors and thinking into an empowered manhood. This engaging self-help book, designed specifically for men, explores masculinity through informative, inspirational meditations. Touchstones offers profound advice for lifes many changes as well as the importance of recognizing the effects of common emotions such as anger, resentment, and fear. Its striking insight supports any stage of recovery, but the daily readings in this book are not simply for a better recovery; they are for a better, more balanced life. Continued awareness and involvement with these ideas provide ongoing personal growth. Although this growth is entirely our own, its benefits will be shared. Newfound mental health and wellness will spread infectiously to every relationship, with friends and family alike. Here, every manly struggle meets an insight. The cycle of addiction meets its end.
2. From Dope to Hope: A Man in Recovery
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Addiction and heroin abuse didn't make Tim Ryan a better person, but recovery has redeemed his years. Substance abuse of heroin and alcohol stole more than half his life. But he has dedicated every waking minute since walking out of prison to dealing hope to addicts and their families. As a recovering addict, Tim is now known as The Hope Dealer. He's also a successful entrepreneur, a nationally ranked barefoot water skierand a truth-talking, convicted felon. Tim has been a featured thought-leader in numerous national media, including USA Today, Newsweek, and on "The Steve Harvey Show." He was an invited guest to the 2016 State of the Union Address. As a business leader in a high-tech industry, Tim made and lost millions. As a father and husband, Tim paved the way for his own son to use deadly drugs. As a heroin addict, Tim is a walking miracle. He has overdosed eight times, was pronounced clinically dead three times, and suffered two minor heart attacks. He has been arrested more than ten times and served prison time alongside known gang leadersmany of whom became his closest confidants in recovery. As the founder of A Man in Recovery Foundation and motivational speaker, Tim's mission is to help one addict at a time transform their lives from dope to hope. This story chronicles Tim's grueling journey into addiction, loss, and recovery. Sit with Tim in his prison cell. Walk with him as loved ones are torn from his reach. Rejoice with him as lives are miraculously recovered. "This is the addict's journey: how it happens, how it progresses, and how it ends. Fortunately, this is also the journey of recovery: how it happens, and how it blossoms. There is always hope." "Dr. Drew" Pinsky, M.D.3. Wisdom to Know: More Daily Meditations for Men from the Best-Selling Author of Touchstones (Hazelden Meditations)
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A daily source of affirmation and action for men in recovery from addiction.From the best-selling author of Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men, this book speaks directly to men who are striving for serenity or trying to maintain emotionally or spiritually balanced lives. Wisdom to Know: More Daily Meditations for Men is full of affirmations that underscore the lessons of intimacy, integrity, and spirituality. It explores the masculine roles of lover, spouse, father, and friend.
4. Cut the Crap: A Yorkshire Mans A - Z Guide to Mindfulness
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Mindfulness is simple - when you focus and "CUT the CRAP!" Yorkshireman and Mindful Master Coach Rick Parcell takes you on a journey of consciousness in this fun and easy to follow workbook.5. Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
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Practical, proven self help steps show how to transform 40 common self-defeating behaviors, including procrastination, envy, obsession, anger, self-pity, compulsion, neediness, guilt, rebellion, inaction, and more.6. A Man's Way through the Twelve Steps
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A fresh interpretation of the healing process established by the Twelve Steps, with an eye toward the social, cultural, and psychological factors that affect men--and thus their recovery from addiction.In A Man's Way through the Twelve Steps, author Dan Griffin uses interviews with men in various stages of recovery, excerpts from relevant Twelve Step literature, and his own experience to offer the first holistic approach to sobriety for men. Readers work through each of the Twelve Steps, learn to reexamine negative masculine scripts that have shaped who they are and how they approach recovery, and strengthen the positive and affirming aspects of manhood.
This groundbreaking book offers the tools needed for men to work through key issues with which they commonly struggle, including difficulty admitting powerlessness, finding connection with a Higher Power, letting go of repressed anger and resentment, contending with sexual issues, and overcoming barriers to intimacy and meaningful relationships.
A Man's Way through the Twelve Steps offers practical advice and inspiration for men to define their own sense of masculinity and thus heighten their potential for a lifetime of sobriety.
7. Meditation Without Bullshit: A Guide for Rational Men
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Through meditation you can dramatically improve your well-being. Yet, the way it is commonly taught can be very off-putting if you are an analytical or even skeptical person. Instead of clear instructions, you get exposed to fantasy constructs such as chakras or the third eye. Instead of precise technical instruction, people distract you with gongs and incense sticks. Consequently, the core of meditation often has to be carefully extracted by each student. What is worse, some get misguided and meditate in a highly inefficient manner for years. Others dismiss meditation altogether as a consequence.
As an antidote, Aaron S. Elias presents Meditation Without Bullshit. This book distills more than twenty years of personal practice, including years of teaching meditation. It focuses on principles and methods. It furthermore gives practical guidance, justifies recommended methods, and provides you with a detailed roadmap for your own meditative practice. In addition, Meditation Without Bullshit highlights misguided approaches to meditation.
8. Just Breathe: All stories redeemable, All brokenness repairable, All addictions breakable
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Keith Repult spent his life looking for love and running from God. After growing up bouncing between parents, grandparents, and foster homes, Keith ended up in California in his early twentieshomeless, addicted, and broken.
One night he met the owner of a local adult bookstore and soon became a worldwide leader in the porn industry. As a self-made multimillionaire, King Keith was living a life of luxury, but was completely empty and addicted to alcohol, drugs, and pornography. Still trying to find the answers, Keith and his wife bought a vacation house at the beach and opened a yogurt shop. That shop opened the door for them to encounter the grace of Jesus Christ.
Using the acronym BREATHE, Just Breathe provides practical tools for reflection, hope, and help for those drowning in the pain of addiction. It is also a powerful ministry resource, using the steps Keith took to find freedom from addiction.
Not only does God know everything about us, He also relentlessly pursues us with an unfailing love. Keiths story reminds us that weve never gone too far to be made new by the big grace of God.
9. Get Well Soon! Activity & Puzzle Book for Men: Crosswords, Word Finds, Sudoku, Inspirational Quotes Puzzles, Fun Quizzes, Jokes and Trivia (Get Well Soon Adult Activity Books) (Volume 1)
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A Get Well Soon Activity Puzzle Book especially for Men! Full of crossword puzzles, trivia questions, Suduko, word finds, funny and inspirational quote falls, fun quizzes, and jokes.Quizzes like....Are you Competitive? Are you Cheap?....50 Things every man should know how to do....Presidential trivia....dumb jokes...funny quote falls filled with humor and inspiration
This book will be sure to lift his spirits!
10. You Can't Start Over, but You Can Start Today: God's Heart for Men in Recovery
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Addiction's First Casualty is GodMen who indulge compulsive addictions for any length of time not only suffer from delusion about their own identity and condition, but they turn God into an insensitive, unrealistic, brick-counting Pharaoh. Whatever their flavor of addiction has been--drugs, alcohol, pornography, gambling, gluttony, or something else--and whatever physical, biochemical, emotional, spiritual, or generational factors ushered them down that dark path, they all share one common factor: they concluded early on that God was a "hard man." They decided their reality was populated with unconquerable appetites, desires, lusts, temptations, and pressures that God was simply unable or unwilling to address.
A critical element of recovery, therefore, is to begin thinking rightly about God's character. This reflective book helps men in recovery replace the harsh, demanding "God" of their addicted imaginations with the Father of Mercies.
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